When determining which investments to make in their technology infrastructure, organizations will often choose to make no changes at all. While this decision avoids short-term costs and business disruption, it will simply delay the inevitable—even making it worse.
The cost of doing nothing is expensive in the long term. This report—from the independent researchers at Aberdeen Group—outlines the reasons organizations choose not to upgrade enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and cautions against this approach, supplying detailed research that illustrates the benefits of keeping your systems current.
Epicor has a history of providing software solutions tailored specifically for the manufacturing industry. Check out the report, and see how upgrading to Epicor ERP can help grow your business.

As an automotive parts manufacturer, you know that change is in the air. A growing number of trends are having a substantial effect on the industry, and you’ll need to find ways to adapt to the times.
A recent presentation—hosted by Today’s Motor Vehicles and sponsored by Epicor Software—examined these trends, including:
• Electric vehicles
• Shifts in consumer tastes
• Driverless vehicles
In addition to detailing these disruptive trends, the presentation covered some risk factors facing the auto industry, manufacturing opportunities, manufacturing challenges, and the benefits of having a fit-for-purpose enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
Download the white paper to read an overview of what’s shaping today’s auto vehicle industry and how the Epicor CMS solution can help you grow.

Cloud is no longer a tactical solution but rather a strategic enabler of connected economies. Technology leaders will orchestrate cloud ecosystems that connect employees, customers, partners, vendors, and devices to serve rising customer expectations. Firms will shift from being mere cloud adopters to becoming cloud companies themselves—stewards of their own ecosystems.
This Forrester report—presented by Epicor—highlights the transformation taking place as we move to a world of connected cloud ecosystems, and it describes how:
• The cloud economy disrupts business models
• Rightsourcing is a key challenge to cloud success
• You will orchestrate the cloud, and it will orchestrate you
Download the report to learn more and discover why you should change the way you think about cloud.

If you’re a manufacturer and have questions about deploying your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the cloud, here’s your answer—it’s time to move.
Cloud ERP solutions provide a number of benefits for manufacturers, and those who make the switch are seeing how simple, economic, and reliable this type of deployment can be. In this eBook, you’ll discover the top 10 reasons why Epicor customers are choosing to deploy their ERP in the cloud rather than on premises, including:
• Economic benefits
• Better use of IT resources
• Greater security
• Easier updates
• Improved mobility and collaboration
• Faster time to value
Download the eBook to learn more about how cloud ERP from Epicor can help your manufacturing business.

More than ever, businesses are considering a cloud solution for their enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment over an on-premises system. Cloud technology appeals to these companies because updates and fixes occur automatically with little or no effort from internal IT staff, and because cloud-based solutions provide access to real-time data from anywhere. Employees want tools that make it easier for them to complete everyday tasks and make informed decisions that help the business grow.
Aberdeen’s research report, “Top Performers Know It’s Time to Migrate to Cloud ERP: Here’s Why and How,” uncovers the reasons successful companies are choosing cloud over on-premises ERP models.
Download this report from Aberdeen Group and discover the compelling reasons more companies are choosing the cloud for their ERP platform.

In their report—Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Midsize Enterprises—Gartner recognized Epicor as a “Visionary” in the cloud ERP marketplace. Epicor Cloud ERP is an economical, efficient, and reliable enterprise resource planning system that helps manufacturers simplify business operations, ease IT responsibilities, and extend visibility across the organization.
We believe Gartner’s positioning of Epicor ERP reflects our focus on providing solutions that fit manufacturing businesses to drive growth with greater ease. Read the report from Gartner to learn more.

To succeed in the extremely competitive
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organization needs a strong foundation. These
technology best practices for enterprise resource
planning (ERP), human capital management
(HCM), and enterprise performance management
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transform the way your organization navigates this
rapidly changing industry.

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a series of software applications or modules that collects data from your sales, purchasing, finance, inventory, supply chain, manufacturing and quality functions into a common database so that your company can share the information, coordinate activities and collaborate.
If you’re looking for your first ERP system or looking to upgrade from an existing system, the evaluation, selection and implementation process is a long-term strategic decision for your organization.

Digital transformation (DX) is fundamentally changing enterprise resource planning (ERP) — allowing businesses to transform their decision making, which is enhancing their business outcomes significantly as we enter the digital economy. Digital transformation is an enterprisewide, board-level strategic reality for companies wishing to remain relevant or maintain or enhance their leadership positon in the digital economy. Digitally transformed businesses have a repeatable set of practices and disciplines that are used to leverage new business, 3rd Platform technology, and operating models to disrupt businesses, customers, and markets in pursuit of business performance and growth. DX is driving businesses to rethink their technology strategy, and that includes moving beyond their legacy ERP and back-office systems.

Different finance departments want different financial solutions. Some may simply require financial reporting while, at the other end of the spectrum, some will want a comprehensive performance management solution. This paper compares different approaches to these choices that are available for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environments. The offerings in this space range from simple reporting tools to complete, integrated solutions. While noting the value that targeted toolsets provide, a survey of the available offerings suggests that most organisations are better served by implementing a holistic, integrated approach rather than a hybrid, multivendor approach.

As the world around us becomes increasingly digital, manufacturers must follow suit. Digital transformation presents significant opportunities to achieve growth by addressing key operational issues and aligning products and services to the demands of today’s market.
Growth looks different for every company, and with the vast array of digital technologies available, it can be hard to know where to start. Which technologies offer the greatest opportunity for your company to grow? How can you successfully embrace the digital revolution?
Epicor has a history of helping manufacturers achieve growth by utilizing cutting-edge technology. By downloading these digital transformation assets, you will:
• Understand what growth might look like for your business
• Assess the capabilities needed to support your digital transformation journey
• Explore best practices to implement your digital transformation strategy
• Learn how to capitalize on growth opportunities with speed and conviction

The digital age has created a new level of complexity for businesses around the globe. Is having an intelligent ERP a critical component in digital transformation? Digital transformation is fundamentally altering the way enterprises utilise their enterprise resources planning systems. Find out how Intelligent ERP is the key to mastering the complexity of the digital age.

To run a successful operation, every manufacturing organization needs a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to boost efficiencies and drive down costs. However, with so many options available, it can be difficult to make the right choice. If you’re wondering whether a generic or industry-specific solution is the best fit for your business—or if you’re wondering how to even start the ERP selection process—you’re not alone.
In this white paper, you’ll discover ways to simplify your ERP selection process, and you’ll learn the differences between industry-specific and generic ERP solutions.

This white paper describes how ERP technology can improve efficiency by:
• Standardizing and automating business processes—locally as well as across multiple locations and countries—to accelerate business operations.
• Offering a fully integrated suite of business management applications that share a common dataset and extending these applications over the Internet, allowing visibility and collaboration across departments, as well as with customers, partners, suppliers, and remote users.
• Providing flexible and customizable reporting to improve business reporting, analysis,and insight.

This white paper describes two strategies organizations can employ to maximize the returns from their ERP investments: Use a proven methodology to speed implementation and achieve ROI faster, and define and track metrics to measure progress in meeting business objectives.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.

Risk-averse distributors may feel that the safest and simplest IT strategy is to stay with their existing "homegrown" enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. But just as sticking your money under the mattress offers no protection against inflation, maintaining an outdated system can rob you of a distinct competitive advantage.

The capabilities that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems enable in wholesale and distribution have a wide umbrella of influence throughout an organization. Using ERP data to make better business decisions while cutting your costs is only one

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

As one of the most popular integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions on the market, SAP has enabled organizations to optimize many of their most essential business functions in finance, human capital management, enterprise performance management, and supplier relationship management. One of the most pervasive challenges for SAP shops is integrating SAP to other applications within their organization. Without proper integration between SAP and these systems, organizations fail to fully automate and optimize their business processes. This whitepaper provides an overview of some of the most common challenges faced when integrating SAP, a brief overview of SAP interfaces and integration points, various approaches for SAP integration and a suggested best architecture for solving the SAP integration challenge.